"majority of 3,337. Griffiths was re-selected to defend her seat at the 2016 election., and retained it with reduced majority of 1,325 over the Conservative candidate. Griffiths was appointed Deputy Minister for Science, Innovation and Skills in December 2009. After the 2011 election, she was promoted to the Minister for Health and Social Services, a post she held until March 2013 when she was appointed Minister for Local Government and Government Business. In September 2014 she was appointed Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty. She was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs following re-election in May 2016 ,"
"before being named in her current role of Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning, and Rural Affairs in November 2017. In October 2018 Griffiths used her ministerial office to overturn the decision of a planning inspector to refuse a proposed wind farm near Llandrindod Wells. In November the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales announced that it was challenging this in the High Court. Lesley Griffiths Susan Lesley Griffiths AM (known as Lesley Griffiths, born 1960) is a Welsh Labour politician. She worked as a secretary to John Marek and the constituency assistant to Ian Lucas, successive Members of Parliament"
"Business in March 2013. In September 2014 she was appointed Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty. Following the National Assembly for Wales elections in 2016, she was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs following her own re-election . She retained her post in a Welsh Government Cabinet reshuffle in November 2017, but with a revised portfolio of Energy, Planning, and Rural Affairs with Hannah Blythyn AM becoming her Deputy Minister for the Environment. Griffiths was the secretary of John Marek, who represented Wrexham as a Labour member of the Welsh Assembly. However, in 2003 Marek was de-selected by"
"which received Tir Gofal funding. Her hobbies include music, European cinema, gardening, walking and cycling. Nia Griffith Nia Rhiannon Griffith (born 4 December 1956) is a Welsh Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Llanelli since 2005. She previously held the position of Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, having been appointed to the post by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in September 2015 until she resigned in June 2016. On 6 October 2016, Corbyn appointed Griffith as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, replacing Clive Lewis. Griffith was born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, on"
"Welsh Labour leadership contest in 2009. He was appointed Counsel General and Leader of the Legislative Programme in the Welsh Assembly in December 2009, a job previously done by First Minister Carwyn Jones. John Griffiths (Welsh politician) John Griffiths (born 19 December 1956) is a Welsh Labour Co-operative politician and the Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development. Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Griffiths has represented the constituency of Newport East since the National Assembly for Wales was established in 1999. Studied law as a mature student at the University of Wales. Before his election to the National Assembly of Wales, he"
"the Government of Wales Act 2006, Acts of the National Assembly may make any provision that could be made by Act of Parliament. The 20 areas of responsibility devolved to the National Assembly for Wales (and within which Welsh ministers exercise executive functions) are: The Welsh Assembly Government was renamed Welsh Government ("""") under the Wales Act 2014. The government is composed of ministers and deputy ministers. The counsel general is also a member of the Cabinet. The current government is formed by Welsh Labour, the sole Liberal Democrats Assembly Member, Kirsty Williams and Independent AM Dafydd Elis-Thomas. The Welsh"
"Nia Griffith Nia Rhiannon Griffith (born 4 December 1956) is a Welsh Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Llanelli since 2005. She previously held the position of Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, having been appointed to the post by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in September 2015 until she resigned in June 2016. On 6 October 2016, Corbyn appointed Griffith as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, replacing Clive Lewis. Griffith was born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, on 4 December 1956. Her family comes from mining villages near Neath, in South Wales. Her"
"Leslie Griffiths Leslie John Griffiths, Baron Griffiths of Burry Port (born 15 February 1942) is a British Methodist minister and life peer in the House of Lords where he sits with the Labour Party from 2004. He served as President of the Methodist Conference from 1994 to 1995. Griffiths was born in Burry Port in Carmarthenshire, Wales, on the 15 February 1942. He attended Llanelli Grammar School before studying at Cardiff University. Griffiths became a local preacher in the Methodist Church of Great Britain in 1963. He completed a Master of Arts in Theology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in 1969,"
"into existence on 17 October 1964; the first incumbent was Jim Griffiths, MP for Llanelli. The position entailed responsibility for Wales, and expenditure on certain public services was delegated from Westminster. In April 1965 administration of Welsh affairs, which had previously been divided between a number of government departments, was united in a newly created Welsh Office with the Secretary of State for Wales at its head, and the Welsh Secretary became responsible for education and training, health, trade and industry, environment, transport and agriculture within Wales. During the 1980s and 1990s, as the number of Conservative MPs for Welsh"
"2008 and 2009 and the conference withheld consent for this move. On 1 September 2011, Griffiths was appointed as the thirteenth president of the Boys' Brigade. Leslie Griffiths Leslie John Griffiths, Baron Griffiths of Burry Port (born 15 February 1942) is a British Methodist minister and life peer in the House of Lords where he sits with the Labour Party from 2004. He served as President of the Methodist Conference from 1994 to 1995. Griffiths was born in Burry Port in Carmarthenshire, Wales, on the 15 February 1942. He attended Llanelli Grammar School before studying at Cardiff University. Griffiths became"
"Welsh equivalent of Ofsted) from 1992. Immediately before becoming an MP she was Head of Languages at Morriston Comprehensive School, Swansea. She speaks five languages: English, Welsh, Italian, French and Spanish and has written a book on language teaching. Griffith was a founder member of a local Women's Aid organisation and is a member of the National Union of Teachers and the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. Griffith joined the Labour Party in 1981 and has held many posts of responsibility within the party, including Secretary of the Carmarthenshire County Labour Party. She was elected as a councillor"
"for Wales and most of the functions of the Welsh Office. Since May 2007 the National Assembly for Wales has had more extensive powers to legislate, in addition to the function of varying laws passed by Westminster using secondary legislation conferred under the original Government of Wales Act 1998. The post of Secretary of State for Wales, currently Alun Cairns, retains a residual role. The Welsh Government (, is the executive body of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of the First Minister and his Cabinet. Following the National Assembly for Wales election, 2016, a minority Welsh Labour-Welsh Liberal Democrats"
"Win Griffiths Winston James Griffiths, OBE (born 11 February 1943), known as Win Griffiths, is a former teacher and politician, who served as a Member of the European Parliament for South Wales from 1979-1989 and as Member of Parliament for Bridgend from 1987-2005 for the Labour Party. He held a number of front bench roles in opposition and was appointed a Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Welsh Office by Tony Blair in May 1997, but left government after the July 1998 reshuffle. After leaving government he chaired the Welsh Grand Committee and retired from parliament in 2005. He served as chair"
"Party of Wales group. Following a Shadow Cabinet reshuffle in November 2003 she became the Shadow Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning. In April 2006, in line with changes made by the Assembly Government this portfolio changed to Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills. Her portfolio included responsibilities for schools, further education and skills development, higher education, the youth service and the careers service. During the Third Assembly (2007–2011) she resigned that post (June 2008) and became chair of the Subordinate Legislation Committee which subsequently was renamed the Constitutional Affairs Committee. Since 2007 she has also been chair of the Wales"
"John Griffiths (Welsh politician) John Griffiths (born 19 December 1956) is a Welsh Labour Co-operative politician and the Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development. Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Griffiths has represented the constituency of Newport East since the National Assembly for Wales was established in 1999. Studied law as a mature student at the University of Wales. Before his election to the National Assembly of Wales, he was a practising solicitor (criminal law, personal injury and general civil litigation). Former councillor on Gwent County Council and Newport CBC. Member of Labour's National Policy Forum, Co-operative Party, Workers' Educational Association &"
"share of the vote was over 50%, giving him a majority of 6,259 over the Welsh Conservative Party candidate, Ben Gray, placed second. At the following 2016 Welsh Assembly election, Gething once again increased his majority in terms of vote share. Following the 2016 Welsh Assembly election, Gething was promoted to Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport. In a Cabinet re-shuffle in November 2017, Gething became Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services. Gething, alongside Eluned Morgan and Mark Drakeford, was one of the three contenders in the 2018 election for the leadership of Welsh Labour, but was defeated"
"period Leanne Wood was not referred to as Leader of the Opposition during this period and referred to as leader of Plaid Cymru. The Conservative group grew to 12 following Mark Reckless defection from UKIP to the Conservative Group on 6 April 2017 and he was referred to as Leader of the Opposition once more Both the Welsh Conservatives and Plaid Cymru currently refer to their own front benches as Shadow Cabinets. As of December 2018 the following speak for their respective party and question the relevant minister in plenary. Shadow Cabinet (National Assembly for Wales) In the National Assembly"
"retired at the 2011 election. Soon after, he became Chair of the Assembly’s Health and Social Care Committee and of the All-Wales Programme Monitoring Committee for European Funds. In 2013, he was invited by First Minister Carwyn Jones to join the Government, replacing Lesley Griffiths as Minister for Health and Social Services. His appointment was welcomed by the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing. As Health Minister, he guided both the Human Transplantation Act and the Nurse Staffing Levels Act through the Senedd. In a reshuffle after the 2016 election, he became Cabinet Secretary for Finance and"
"to the Carmarthen Town Council in 1987, serving as the sheriff in 1997 and deputy mayor in 1998. She was selected to contest the Welsh seat of Llanelli for Labour at the 2005 General Election following the imposition of an all-women shortlist after the retirement of Denzil Davies. She won the seat with a majority of 7,234 votes and remains the MP there. Griffith made her maiden speech on 19 May 2005. She is a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Welsh Affairs Select Committee and European Scrutiny Committee. She also chairs the All-Party Steel and Metals Group."
"she was selected again as Labour candidate for the Wrexham constituency for the 2007 Assembly elections. She benefited from high-profile support as the party saw an opportunity to recapture the seat; John Marek appealed to the large Polish immigrant population by translating his election material into Polish. However, Griffiths increased her numerical vote while Marek's vote fell, and she won the seat by 1,250. In 2011, Griffiths faced Marek for a third time, though by now Marek had joined the Conservatives. Both of them saw increases in their votes compared to 2007, but Griffiths held the seat with an increased"
"coalition Government was formed in May 2016. The current cabinet members of the 5th Welsh Government are: First Minister Welsh Cabinet Secretaries ""'Welsh Ministers"" The Welsh Government had no independent executive powers in law - unlike for instance, the Scottish Ministers and Ministers in the UK government. The Assembly was established as a ""body corporate"" by the Government of Wales Act 1998 and the executive, as a committee of the Assembly, only had those powers that the Assembly as a whole votes to vest in ministers. The Government of Wales Act 2006 has now formally separated the Assembly and the"
"Griffith was PPS to Harriet Harman MP in her capacity as Minister for Women and Equality before the 2010 general election. Griffith was re-elected in 2010 with her majority reduced by 2,533 votes. In October 2010, she became Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills until October 2011 when she became Shadow Minister for Wales. On 13 September 2015 she became Shadow Secretary of State for Wales. She resigned from this position on 27 June 2016 following a series of other resignations from Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet, but was appointed Shadow Defence Secretary four months later. Her main political interests"
"Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething (born 1974) is an AM Welsh Labour Co-operative politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services since 2016, and has served as Member of the National Assembly (AM) for Cardiff South and Penarth since 2011. Gething was born in Zambia in 1974, where his father (whom Gething describes as ""a white Welsh economic migrant"") was working as a vet. His mother is a black Zambian. When he was two he moved to Dorset, England with his family, which includes three brothers and a sister. He studied at Beaminster Comprehensive and Sixth Form followed by"
"Wrexham (UK Parliament constituency) Wrexham (Welsh: ""Wrecsam"") is a parliamentary constituency centred on the scenic town of Wrexham in Wales created in 1918 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Ian Lucas of the Labour Party. The candidate chosen by the Labour Party has won the seat since 1935. In its earlier years the seat alternated between Liberal and Labour parties. The 2015 result gave the seat the 25th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. Atkinson, the Conservative candidate of 2015, came within 5.6% of taking the seat; his earlier counterparts"
"Labour MP representing the constituency since 1922. It was represented by one-time deputy leader of the Labour Party, Jim Griffiths, from 1936 until his retirement in 1970. In recent years however Labour's majority has been somewhat eroded by Plaid Cymru, who as of 2016 have won the equivalent seat in the Welsh Assembly in two of the five Assembly elections to date. At the 2015 General Election, however, the Labour majority increased once again. Llanelli (UK Parliament constituency) Llanelli is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1918 to 1970 the official"
"Karen Sinclair Karen Sinclair (born 20 November 1952) is a Welsh Labour politician, who represented the constituency of Clwyd South from when the National Assembly for Wales was established in 1999, until she stood down, in 2011. Born and brought up in Wrexham, north Wales, Sinclair has lived in Llangollen for over twenty years. Sinclair was educated at Grove Park Girls School, Wrexham. After working in the Youth service for fourteen years, she became a Care Manager with Wrexham Social Services for clients with learning disabilities. She is also a trained CAB adviser. Sinclair has been a school governor at"
"Shadow Cabinet (National Assembly for Wales) In the National Assembly for Wales the term Leader of the Opposition is given to the leader of the largest party group not in government. Since 27 June 2018 this as been Paul Davies of the Welsh Conservatives. Following the 2016 election, Plaid Cymru lead by Leanne Wood became the largest party not in government having won 12 seats to the Welsh Conservatives 11. On the 14 October 2016 Dafydd Elis-Thomas left Plaid Cymru to sit as an independent which resulting in Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Conservatives both holding 11 seats. During this"
"Cheryl Gillan Dame Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan, (born 21 April 1952 in Cardiff, Wales) is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Chesham and Amersham in Buckinghamshire. She was the Secretary of State for Wales from 2010 to 2012. Prior to her parliamentary career, Gillan worked as a marketing executive for several companies. She was first elected to the House of Commons in 1992 and was a junior minister for Education and Employment from 1995–97 in John Major's government. After 1997 she served as a Conservative whip and as a spokesperson for"
"by Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford. Gething and his wife Michelle live in Penarth, where he has lived since 2011. He is a member of the GMB trade union. Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething (born 1974) is an AM Welsh Labour Co-operative politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services since 2016, and has served as Member of the National Assembly (AM) for Cardiff South and Penarth since 2011. Gething was born in Zambia in 1974, where his father (whom Gething describes as ""a white Welsh economic migrant"") was working as a vet. His mother is a black Zambian. When"
"Secretary of State for Wales Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Wales () is the principal minister of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom with responsibilities for Wales. He or she is a member of the cabinet and the head of the Wales Office. He or she is responsible for ensuring Welsh interests are taken into account by Her Majesty's Government, representing the government within Wales and overseeing the passing of legislation which is only for Wales. The current Secretary of State for Wales is Alun Cairns, following his appointment in 2016. In the first half of the"
"the position of Cabinet Minister, as Minister for Community Development, Women's Interests, Tourism, Seniors and Youth; Disability Services; and Culture and the Arts. In March 2008, McHale announced that she would retire and not contest the upcoming State election. In the 2008 election the seat of Kenwick was abolished and replaced with the seat of Gosnells. Chris Tallentire was preselected and won the new seat for the ALP despite a swing of 5.9% against them. Sheila McHale Sheila Margaret McHale (1 September 1953) born is a former Labor Party MP in the Government of Western Australia. Prior to retirement, she"
"explicitly require it. She campaigned for the UK to leave the European Union during the 2016 referendum. Davies was appointed an Assistant Government Whip on 9 January 2018 and subsequently to the role of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales on 26 July 2018. In the House of Commons she sits on the Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion and has previously sat on the Consolidation Bills (Joint Committee) and Women and Equalities Committee. On 23 October 2018, Davis resigned from a committee chaired by Commons speaker John Bercow, citing incompetence in Bercow's ability to tackle bullying and"
"of Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust following his retirement and is now Chairman of Wales Council for Voluntary Action and the Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust. He was awarded an OBE in the 2011 New Year Honours list. Win Griffiths Winston James Griffiths, OBE (born 11 February 1943), known as Win Griffiths, is a former teacher and politician, who served as a Member of the European Parliament for South Wales from 1979-1989 and as Member of Parliament for Bridgend from 1987-2005 for the Labour Party. He held a number of front bench roles in opposition and was appointed a Parliamentary Under-Secretary in"